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ARMS will allow us to see how much cryptic diversity we're missing with traditional surveys and allow us to compare our data with other sites around the world that use ARMS to measure biodiversity.
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ARMS, or Autonomous Reef Monitoring Structures, were designed to mimic the complexity of marine reefs. Over time, organisms "move in" to the structures and when they're recovered we can use them to assess biodiversity. Researchers around the world are using them as a standardized method for measuring species richness and abundance, which allows for comparison across studies.
What's next?
After we assess biodiversity across our gradient of oyster reefs, we will be able to compare species abundance and richness with our acoustic and remotely sensed metrics and see how well they estimate biodiversity as well as ecosystem health.
